• 영어어문교육
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• 제17권1호
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• pp.1-16
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• 2011

Listening has been a neglected research area despite the crucial role it plays. The present investigation was aimed at examining how the provision of topical knowledge and learners' listening proficiency level affect learners' listening performance under four different preparatory activity conditions: topical knowledge, vocabulary list, language structure, and no activity. A total of 134 participants, assigned to the four different activity groups, took part in the study. The results revealed that the learners who were provided with topical knowledge before listening performed significantly better than the other learners, followed by the vocabulary list group and language structure group, which might be attributed to the activation of their content schemata. The learners who did not perform any preparatory activities achieved the lowest scores. When it comes to the impact of listening proficiency, it was revealed that learners' proficiency level had a significant influence on learners' listening performance, and there was a significant interaction between the learners' level of listening proficiency and preparatory activity. Providing relevant knowledge was effective for both higher level and lower level learners, whereas teaching vocabulary before listening was effective for higher level learners but was not for lower level ones. Based on the results, some pedagogical implications and suggestions for future research were discussed.

• 한국멀티미디어학회논문지
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• 제24권1호
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• pp.117-124
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• 2021

Korean education in China began at Peking University in the 1950s. At present, The Korean language education in China has made remarkable progress in many aspects such as scale, scope, level and achievement. In addition, with the increasingly frequent economic and cultural exchanges or cooperation between China and South Korea and the increasing trend of internationalization, the prosperity of Korean wave culture and the sound development of China-South Korea relations, the country's demand for Korean language talents is increasing day by day. However, with the rise of Korean education in China in recent years, some hidden problems also surfaced. In this paper, the Korean language proficiency test(TOPIK) is used to evaluate the Korean language proficiency of Korean learners, and Chinese juniors are used to evaluate the Korean language proficiency. In addition, a questionnaire survey was conducted to analyze the learning media of Chinese Korean learners at the present stage, and the relationship between learning media and learning outcomes was concluded. At the same time, deficiencies and problems existed in Korean education in colleges and universities were proposed and their own ideas were put forward.

• 디지털융복합연구
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• 제11권3호
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• pp.363-369
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• 2013

본 논문은 뇌에서 발생하는 언어와 관련된 현상들을 모델링하여 외국어 능숙도 측정 방법을 설계 및 개발하였다. 이 방법은 인지 심리학에서 인지능력을 측정하는 방법에 기반하며, 어휘 판단 과제, 언어 점화 과제, 구어 작업 기억 능력 측정 과제로 나뉜다. 어휘 판단 과제는 자극에 대해 단어인지 비 단어인지를 얼마나 빠르게 판단하는 지를 측정한다. 어휘 판단 과제는 세부적으로 자극의 형태에 따라 읽기와 듣기로 나뉜다. 언어 점화 과제는 언어의 산출 능력을 측정한다. 언어 점화 과제는 자극에 따라 의미적 점화 과제, 번역 점화 과제로 나뉜다. 구어 작업 기억 능력은 학습자의 단기 기억력을 측정한다. 본 논문에서는 제2외국어에 대한 학습자의 언어 인지능력을 사용하여 외국어 능숙도를 측정하는 방법을 제안한다.

• 대한가정학회지
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• 제42권1호
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• pp.181-195
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• 2004

The purpose of the study was to explore the degree of children's access to media and the relationship between the use of media and language development of Korean-Chinese bilingual children in Yanji, China. Questionnaires were answered by 258 4th graders and their parents. The results showed that the children had an access to a variety of media. The children's use of language(Korean/ Chinese) differed to the type of media： they had more access to Korean language in the use of newspapers/magazines, books, and radio, and to Chinese language in the use of computer. They had comparatively a balanced access to Korean/chinese language in the use of TV. Stepwise regression analyses revealed that the children's access to Chinese language in the use of media, proficiency of a parent's Chinese language, and a parent's affection were related to proficiency of the children's Chinese language. Implications are derived from the use of media in development of bilingualism.

• 영어어문교육
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• 제13권4호
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• pp.109-126
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• 2007

English article has been considered as one of the most difficult areas to learn among ESL/EFL students. The current paper reviews English learners' article error patterns as well as pedagogy in order to teach English articles and to minimize learning difficulties on English articles. Different pedagogy for English articles on the basis of learners' proficiency levels are suggested as each proficiency level student shows a different error tendency; beginning level language learners used the zero article with the most facility while intermediate level language learners used the definite article the most accurately. However, studies about high advanced level learners' error patterns present that these high accuracy rates among beginning level students might be a result of students' plain guessing. Considering these error patterns, pedagogy for advanced level is also suggested.

• 영어어문교육
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• 제17권1호
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• pp.165-190
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• 2011

This research investigates listening strategies and the relationship between the employment of strategy and listening proficiency of Korean EFL middle school students. One hundred and four middle school students (N = 104) participated in this study and their strategy use was assessed through a questionnaire adapted from Oxford's (1990) SILL and O'Malley and Chamot (1990). To measure listening proficiency, the English Listening Ability Test designed by 15 city and provincial offices of education in Korea was used. The results show that students employed a moderate use of strategies; compensation strategies were used most frequently and metacognitive strategies were used the least frequently. Significant differences were found in the use of implicit strategy among different listening proficiency groups, but not in their use of behavioral strategy. Furthermore, there were significant differences in the use of implicit memory, cognitive and compensation strategies among groups of students with different listening proficiencies, but not in their use of metacognitive strategy. The results from multiple regression analysis indicate that implicit strategy use could play an important role in listening comprehension. The findings suggest the need for additional research to explore the effect of listening strategy training for English language learners.

• 농촌지도와개발
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• 제21권4호
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• pp.1061-1091
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• 2014

언어는 문화화 연결되어 있을 뿐만 아니라 한 개인을 사회적이고 문화적인 차원에서 통합하는 기능을 지니고 있다. 사회적 참여활동 또한 이민자를 포함한 한 개인의 정체성을 신장하는데 중요한 역할을 수행하는 것으로 여러 선행연구들이 주장하고 있으나 이를 경험적으로 규명한 연구는 제한되어 있다. 이러한 측면에서 이 연구는 한국 농촌사회에 거주하는 결혼이민여성들이 인식한 자신들의 공동체 의식 수준에 한국어 능력 수준 및 지역사회활동 참여 경험과 같은 변인들이 어떠한 영향을 미치는가를 규명하려 하였다. 이러한 연구목적을 규명하기 위해 구조화된 설문지를 이용해 최종적으로 전국 43개 지역에서 조사된 356명의 자료가 분석되었다. 연구결과에 의하면 한국어 능력수준 변인은 결혼이민여성들이 인식한 그들의 공동체의식 수준에 중요하고 의미있게 작용하는 반면 지역사회활동참여 경험 변인은 그것에 대해 매개적인 효과만을 지니는 것으로 나타났다. 또한 한국어 능력수준변인은 지역사회활동참여 경험 변인보다 상대적으로 중요한 설명력을 갖는 것으로 나타나, 결혼이민여성들의 공동체 의식을 향상하기 위해서 지역사회활동이 한국어 능력을 향상하는 프로그램과 병행하여 실시되어야 할 것으로 보인다. 이외에도 본 연구결과에 토대하여 결혼이민여성들의 한국어 능력과 지역사회활동 참여를 통해 공동체 의식을 향상하는 몇가지 방안들이 결론 및 제언부분에 제안되어 있다.

• 한국산학기술학회논문지
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• 제12권1호
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• pp.195-199
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• 2011

영어 능력평가를 위한 테스트는 평가자, 과제, 인터뷰의 주제, 그리고 평가 받는 사람의 성별 등 여러 가지 이유 때문에 그 평가 결과가 아주 다양할 수 있다. 이전의 자료는 평가자가 외국어로서의 영어구술 능력 평가 결과에 아주 중요한 영향을 끼친다는 것을 증명해 왔다. 이렇게 영어 능력 구술 평가에 영향을 미치는 평가자에 대한 많은 조사는 있었지만 평가 과정에 잠재적으로 영향을 줄 수 있는 평가자의 가변성에 대한 조사는 극히 드물었다. 시험 환경이 달라지면 그에 따라 구술 평가가 달라지고 그 평가 기준은 또 완전히 달라진다. 그러므로 다양한 시험 수행 과제에 대해 똑같은 평가 기준을 적용하는 것은 적당치 않다. 즉 평가 과정에 대한 더 많은 원안 분석과 심도 있는 연구가 필요하다. 제 2외국어로서 영어 능력평가를 위한 구술시험은 보다 더 현실적이고 효율적인 장치가 만들어져야 할 것이다.

• Child Studies in Asia-Pacific Contexts
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• 제6권1호
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• pp.17-29
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• 2016

To help define future research direction and enhance educational service for children from Asian and Latino immigrant backgrounds, this review examines research investigating social competence with reference to host and heritage language skills. A targeted search obtained 14 peer-reviewed studies published from 1994 to 2014 focusing on children aged from birth to 12 years. Social competence is mainly measured by four dimensions: externalizing behaviours, internalizing behaviours, social skills and relationships with others. The evidence suggests that English proficiency levels are positively associated with social skills and parent-child relationships are of higher quality when parent-child heritage language difference is minimal. However the findings are mixed regarding how English levels are associated with externalizing, internalizing behaviours and relationships with others and how heritage language levels are associated with social competence. This review makes a set of recommendations for future research including assessment of participants' language proficiency with language tests and examination of emotional factors in the relationship between English and social competence. The implications of the findings are also discussed for educators.

• 음성과학
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• 제13권1호
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• pp.55-66
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• 2006

A purpose of this study is to investigate the acoustic characteristics of English stress produced by the two groups of South Kyungsang (henceforth, SK) Korean speakers: high-proficiency and low-proficiency with reference to English native speakers. Another purpose is to compare results from the high- and low-proficiency SK Korean subjects with those of the native speakers, and to provide an analytical account of how approximate the high-proficiency SK Korean subjects' production is to the native speakers' and how different the low-proficiency SK Korean subjects' is from the native speakers'. Results indicated that the native speakers' main strategy used in producing stressed syllables was duration while the high-proficiency SK Korean subjects' was predominantly pitch-oriented. The low-proficiency SK Korean subjects' pitch patterns showed regularity, emphasizing the penultimate syllable with pitch. In comparing duration among the three groups, both groups of the SK Korean subjects became more even in their duration values for each syllable as the structure of the word or the sentence became more complex.